Galatians 2:17, (CEV) “When we Jews started looking for a way to please God, we discovered that we are sinners too. Does this mean that Christ is the one who makes us sinners? No, it doesn’t! But if I tear down something and then build it again, I prove that I was wrong at first.”
Gal. 2:17-18 (KJV), “But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, [is] therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid. For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.”
Even as a physical Jew, if I am trying to please God another way besides His faith and grace in me. Then it is ME (not Him) rebuilding the old barn that was destroyed. I am proving to myself I cannot fulfill my self-imposed law and am falling short of the glory of God, Rom. 3:23. In doing so, I am putting myself back under law that I suppose to be judging me and am unable to ever fulfill when in reality there truly is No condemnation in Christ for those in the Spirit.
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